* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor ( The Jackson 5 ) ( d. 2009 )

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

* On 3 April 2011, Fulham unveiled a statue of Michael Jackson inside the stadium before its match with Blackpool.

Michael Jackson statue at Craven Cottage

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

After the sudden death of Michael Jackson, whom Parton knew personally, she released a video in which she somberly told of her feelings on Jackson and his death.

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

Radio stations nationwide began to play hits by artists like TKA, Sweet Sensation, Exposé and Sa-Fire on the same playlists as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.

In 2005 Coleman appeared in WWE Superstar John Cena's music video for his single Bad, Bad Man ( from the album You Can't See Me ), Coleman played the part of himself as a bad guy taking the 1980s pop stars Madonna and Michael Jackson hostage.

In 2001 Gaynor performed " I Will Survive " at the 30th Anniversary Concert for Michael Jackson.

's as well as vocalists such as Edwin Starr, David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards from The Temptations, and Michael Jackson, who, throughout his career, cited Brown as his ultimate idol.

* 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

* 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

* Michael Jackson, known as " The King Of Pop "

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

Ferrigno trained Michael Jackson on and off since the early 1990s, and in 2009, he helped Jackson get into shape for a planned series of concerts in London.

He protected well-known personalities such as Muhammad Ali, Steve McQueen, Michael Jackson, Leon Spinks, Joe Frazier and Diana Ross, charging $ 3, 000 per day, to a maximum of $ 10, 000 per day, depending on the clientele's risk-rate and traveling locations.

The National Stadium also hosted many music concerts including Michael Jackson, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and U2.

The actor was a longtime close friend of entertainer Michael Jackson and paid regular visits to his Neverland Ranch, resting there for weeks at a time.

Michael Rugg, of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, presented a comparison between human, Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus skulls ( reconstructions made by Grover Krantz ) in episodes 131 and 132 of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum Show.

Oryphas, the admiral of the Byzantine fleet, alerted the emperor Michael, who promptly put the invaders to flight ; but the suddenness and savagery of the onslaught made a deep impression on the citizens.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

District Attorneys Michael Guarino and Ira Riener made a motion for a retrial which was denied by Judge Isacoff, Superior Court Judge for the County of Los Angeles.

As DSM-III chief architect Robert Spitzer and DSM-IV editor Michael First outlined in 2005, " little progress has been made toward understanding the pathophysiological processes and etiology of mental disorders.

Tsar Michael of Russia reportedly had a bulat helmet made for him in 1621.

The influence of Shakespeare and Michael Drayton made the use of elf and fairy for very small beings the norm.

Similarly, the rebel position at St Stephen's Green, held by the Citizen Army under Michael Mallin, was made untenable after the British placed snipers and machine guns in the Shelbourne Hotel and surrounding buildings.

Mulvey posits in her notes to the Criterion Collection DVD of Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom that the cinema spectator ’ s own voyeurism is made shockingly obvious and even more shockingly, the spectator identifies with the perverted protagonist.

* In Apogee of Fear, filmed in October 2008 and billed as " the first science-fiction movie made in space ", NASA astronaut Michael Fincke refers to the need to " fashion weapons out of a rudimentary lathe.

) After a number of failed attempts to get the script to Kubrick made Waters realize the apparent futility of the enterprise, he decided to give the script to Michael Lehmann, who then took it on with Denise Di Novi.

It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

This made it unpopular as a national symbol and the Kerry Blue Terrier was adopted by Republicans such as Michael Collins.

Under this royal patronage, and in association with Michael Scot, Anatoli made Arabic learning accessible to Western readers.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

In a 2002 interview with Michael Parkinson, John Cleese said that when he and Palin were performing the sketch on Drury Lane, Palin made him laugh by saying, when asked if his slug could talk, " It mutters a bit " instead of " Not really.

" Michael said he was horrified that the pictures would be made public and ruin the lives of his family.

Michael Polanyi, FRS ( 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976 ) was a Hungarian polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials.

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers.

Another debate developed around the ( distinct ) criticisms of liberal political theory made by Michael Sandel and Charles Taylor.

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic thriller starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain ( 1989 ), a police drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Japan.

Michael Hicks and Josephine Wilkinson have suggested that Katharine's mother may have been Katherine Haute, on the basis of the grant of an annual payment of 100 shillings made to her in 1477.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.